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Topic starter
13/05/2021 9:40 pm
This item shows you can still get a great model for not a huge expenditure. A White Box 1939 Lagonda LG6 convertible, which in 1:1, used a 4.5 litre straight six by Meadows although Lagonda was known for V-12 engines. In addition to this tourer there were saloon, coupe, and limousine versions produced from 1937 to 1940.
John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
14/05/2021 8:19 am
What a difference more than six decades makes! Here is the Dinky 38C Lagonda. I remember getting one as a very young child, and even then it was probably remaindered stock from a Nashville toy wholesaler.
Topic starter
14/05/2021 11:18 am
@mg-harv I had completely forgotten I have one of these in green as well. And all of this series of early Dinkys including the Jaguar SS100.
John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
14/05/2021 12:44 pm
Topic starter
14/05/2021 1:54 pm
@mg-harv And I'm sure you have the Dinky 39 series, I recall at least a Studebaker coupe, a Lincoln coupe, an Oldsmobile, Packard, Chrysler and Buick sedans. Mine bought very cheap at toy shows, beat up and now restored.
John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
Harv Goranson and Harv Goranson reacted
15/05/2021 9:06 am
Great old Dinkys!!! See MAR Online for a bit more about them:
https://www.maronline.org.uk/the-dinky-toys-38-series-touring-cars/
https://www.maronline.org.uk/the-dinky-toys-39-series-american-cars/
15/05/2021 11:02 am
I purchased the White Box model Lagonda as the closest I could get to the earlier Lagonda Steed drove in an Avengers episode.
http://www.johnsteedsflat.com/lagonda.html
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
15/05/2021 11:28 am
As a young child, my next door neighbour in Yorkshire had a 1939 Lagonda LG6 Convertible. I never saw him drive it but every sunny weekend, it was out of the garage in the drive receiving TLC. In the late 1940s, road taxes for cars like this were so high that most never went on the road. My neighbour on the other side had a 1930s Morgan 3 Wheeler and I got out on the road with him for drives on many occasions. Much cheaper road tax on it.